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Economic and social history of medieval Europe
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Pirenne, Henri |
"In this book, Henri Pirenne, the great Belgian economic historian, traces the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire t… |
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"Ich sah den Namen Bosch"
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Angela Martin |
Angela Martin hat mit 50 Überlebenden des firmeneigenen Konzentrationslagers gesprochen, die Fotograrin Hucky Fin Porzner hat die Zeitzeuginnen portraitiert. (Source: [Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt][1… |
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The body of the conquistador
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Rebecca Earle |
"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish Ame… |
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Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East
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Joy McCorriston |
In this book, Joy McCorriston examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East. Tracing the phenomenon of pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia up through the development of the Hajj,… |
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The Fishing Fleet
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Anne de Courcy,Anne De Courcy |
"The fascinating and entertaining true stories of the young Victorian women on the hunt for husbands among the colonial businessmen and bureaucrats in the Raj"-- |
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Imperial San Francisco
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Gray A. Brechin |
This book has lots of great stories and background about how the San Francisco power brokers of the late 19th century interrelated with the city, the state, and the rest of the country, including som… |
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Worktown
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Hall, David (Television producer) |
"In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ord… |
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In search of human nature
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Carl N. Degler |
Now, with In Search of Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, pro… |
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A History of the Wife
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Marilyn Yalom |
How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, b… |
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Weaving the Past
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Susan Kellogg |
Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigen… |
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The First Urban Christians
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Wayne A. Meeks |
The Pauline Epistles as historical-sociological documents: a balanced, meticulous, fabulously learned study suggesting (despite itself) that when all is said and done Paul still belongs to the believ… |
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Daily Life of the Nubians (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
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Robert Steven Bianchi |
Until recently little was known about ancient Nubia and day-to-day lives of the Nubian people aside from knowing it was a civilization contemporary with, distinct from, and living under the shadow of… |
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From plantation to ghetto
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August Meier |
Beginning with the slave trade, the book interprets black ideologies and protest movements throughout American history, particularly in the 20th century. |
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The decline of the Californios
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Ramon A. Gutierrez,Leonard Pitt |
Publisher description: A striking addition to the literature of ethnic minorities, this book deals with the early struggles of the Spanish-speaking people of California. It focuses on the circumstanc… |
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Fremde und Fremd-Sein in der DDR
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Thomas Lindenberger,Jan C. Behrends,Patrice G. Poutrus |
Die Welle fremdenfeindlicher Gewalt, die Deutschland im Jahre 2000 überzog, gab den Anstoß zu einer Tagung des Potsdamer "Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung" (ZZF), deren Beiträge die vorliegende… |
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